From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
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Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Michael S . Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com>,
Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 18:49:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <373a6898-4020-4af1-5b3d-f827d705dd77@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871ro52ary.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
On 30.04.20 18:33, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> On 30.04.20 17:38, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>> David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Some devices/drivers that add memory via add_memory() and friends (e.g.,
>>>> dax/kmem, but also virtio-mem in the future) don't want to create entries
>>>> in /sys/firmware/memmap/ - primarily to hinder kexec from adding this
>>>> memory to the boot memmap of the kexec kernel.
>>>>
>>>> In fact, such memory is never exposed via the firmware memmap as System
>>>> RAM (e.g., e820), so exposing this memory via /sys/firmware/memmap/ is
>>>> wrong:
>>>> "kexec needs the raw firmware-provided memory map to setup the
>>>> parameter segment of the kernel that should be booted with
>>>> kexec. Also, the raw memory map is useful for debugging. For
>>>> that reason, /sys/firmware/memmap is an interface that provides
>>>> the raw memory map to userspace." [1]
>>>>
>>>> We don't have to worry about firmware_map_remove() on the removal path.
>>>> If there is no entry, it will simply return with -EINVAL.
>>>>
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-firmware-memmap
>>>
>>>
>>> You know what this justification is rubbish, and I have previously
>>> explained why it is rubbish.
>>
>> Actually, no, I don't think it is rubbish. See patch #3 and the cover
>> letter why this is the right thing to do *for special memory*, *not
>> ordinary DIMMs*.
>>
>> And to be quite honest, I think your response is a little harsh. I don't
>> recall you replying to my virtio-mem-related comments.
>>
>>>
>>> Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
>>>
>>> This needs to be based on weather the added memory is ultimately normal
>>> ram or is something special.
>>
>> Yes, that's what the caller are expected to decide, see patch #3.
>>
>> kexec should try to be as closely as possible to a real reboot - IMHO.
>
> That is very fuzzy in terms of hotplug memory. The kexec'd kernel
> should see the hotplugged memory assuming it is ordinary memory.
>
> But kexec is not a reboot although it is quite similar. Kexec is
> swapping one running kernel and it's state for another kernel without
> rebooting.
I agree (especially regarding the arm64 DIMM hotplug discussion).
However, for the two cases
a) dax/kmem
b) virtio-mem
We really want to let the driver take back control and figure out "what
to do with the memory".
>
>>> Justifying behavior by documentation that does not consider memory
>>> hotplug is bad thinking.
>>
>> Are you maybe confusing this patch series with the arm64 approach? This
>> is not about ordinary hotplugged DIMMs.
>
> I think I am.
>
> My challenge is that I don't see anything in the description that says
> this isn't about ordinary hotplugged DIMMs. All I saw was hotplug
> memory.
I'm sorry if that was confusing, I tried to stress that kmem and
virtio-mem is special in the description.
I squeezed a lot of that information into the cover letter and into
patch #3.
>
> If the class of memory is different then please by all means let's mark
> it differently in struct resource so everyone knows it is different.
> But that difference needs to be more than hotplug.
>
> That difference needs to be the hypervisor loaned us memory and might
> take it back at any time, or this memory is persistent and so it has
> these different characteristics so don't use it as ordinary ram.
Yes, and I think kmem took an excellent approach of explicitly putting
that "System RAM" into a resource hierarchy. That "System RAM" won't
show up as a root node under /proc/iomem (see patch #3), which already
results in kexec-tools to treat it in a special way. I am thinking about
doing the same for virtio-mem.
>
> That information is also useful to other people looking at the system
> and seeing what is going on.
>
> Just please don't muddle the concepts, or assume that whatever subset of
> hotplug memory you are dealing with is the only subset.
I can certainly rephrase the subject/description/comment, stating that
this is not to be used for ordinary hotplugged DIMMs - only when the
device driver is under control to decide what to do with that memory -
especially when kexec'ing.
(previously, I called this flag MHP_DRIVER_MANAGED, but I think
MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP is clearer, we just need a better description)
Would that make it clearer?
Thanks!
--
Thanks,
David / dhildenb
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-04-30 16:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-30 10:29 [PATCH v2 0/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Allow to not create firmware memmap entries David Hildenbrand
2020-04-30 10:29 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Prepare passing flags to add_memory() and friends David Hildenbrand
2020-04-30 10:29 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] mm/memory_hotplug: Introduce MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP David Hildenbrand
2020-04-30 15:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-30 15:52 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-30 16:04 ` Dave Hansen
2020-04-30 16:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-30 16:49 ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2020-04-30 18:06 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-30 18:43 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-04-30 18:58 ` Dan Williams
2020-04-30 22:24 ` Andrew Morton
2020-05-01 9:34 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-01 16:56 ` Dan Williams
2020-05-01 17:21 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-01 17:39 ` Dan Williams
2020-05-01 17:45 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-01 17:51 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-01 18:03 ` Dan Williams
2020-05-01 18:14 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-01 18:43 ` Dan Williams
2020-05-01 19:17 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-01 20:12 ` Dan Williams
2020-05-01 21:10 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-01 21:52 ` Dan Williams
2020-05-02 9:26 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-05-02 18:03 ` Dan Williams
2020-04-30 10:29 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] device-dax: Add system ram (add_memory()) with MHP_NO_FIRMWARE_MEMMAP David Hildenbrand
2020-04-30 11:23 ` Dave Hansen
2020-04-30 15:28 ` David Hildenbrand
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